Review by Matt S. I love RPGs. I love them because they provide a more cerebral experience than most other genres. RPGs are narrative-rich experiences, and their sheer length means that developers can do a lot with those narratives. It’s not an understatement to say that modern RPGs are starting…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We have a lot of hope for The Evil Within. With Resident Evil’s degeneration into a safe action series, the horror genre itself has been left for independent developers, and while these games are often great, we can’t help but hope that a horror game with…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. How’s this for commitment; as I was testing the Braven 710 speaker I had a run-in with the police. I had wirelessly paired the speaker with my PlayStation Vita so I could test it while playing Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f – otherwise known as the…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Pullbox (or Pushmo, depending on where you live in the world) is one of Nintendo’s relatively new IPs, with two games (the second being called Fallbox) having been released on to the 3DS eShop exclusively. These games are truly charming spatial puzzle games, requiring players to…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Good news, anime fans in Australia and New Zealand; Madman has launched a new streaming service that works on all your devices. AnimeLab (www.animelab.com) is currently free and in Beta (in the longer term it looks like it will be an ad-supported service). Once you’ve signed…
Read MoreReview by Sam M. One of the reasons I love my Vita is that it has allowed me to play a large assortment of games that I never got to experience before. Sony has taken the liberty of porting quite a few of its PS2 and PS3 games tto the…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Chicago is brought to startling life in a world where everyone is reliant on technology, and that same technology makes their lives incredibly easy – but also more vulnerable than they realise. Critical information on everyone is attained and curated as you take on the role…
Read MoreReview by Rob P. Here’s an experiment you can try at home. Take a pencil and draw a line on a sheet of paper. This is the Line of Game Complexity. Draw a cross at the far left and label it ‘tic-tac-toe’. Congratulations! You’ve just set a baseline for the…
Read MoreNews by Clark A. To celebrate Sailor Moon’s 20th anniversary, the popular shoujo franchise is making a comeback in a major way. Usagi Tsukino’s (or Serena’s, if you will) adventures will be chronicled throughout the rest of 2014 and beyond. Firstly, a new series called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Even though the iPad and other mobile devices should be perfect for tactics gaming, we haven’t seen that many Japanese tactics games on the platform. There’s Spectral Souls and a Final Fantasy Tactics port, but there aren’t any new tactics JRPGs coming to the iPad. This…
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